Nate Silver: Senate may tip for GOP in 2014

[last1standing]

31. I wasn't asking your permission, I was responding to your post denouncing complainers.

This is a discussion forum, not an electronic soapbox. We're here to share ideas and discuss issues.

As for compromise, I'm all for it but in the political sphere compromise rarely happens in the middle, it happens where the pressure on each side is most bearable. My feel it to be my job as a citizen is to help make sure that pressure moves the balance to the left, not the right. Complaining, which you complained about in your original comment, is not going to move the balance.

That doesn't mean we should sit at home and do nothing but whine about how things aren't exactly as we want them. We need to both whine and work. That goes for the short term and the long term.

I hope Nate Silver is wrong as well. As he admits, there are many, many situations that could cause his numbers to be faulty this far out. Will the teabaggers nominate insane candidates like Mourdock and Akins? It seems likely they will. Will Reid back down from yet another filibuster threat causing even more people to believe the Democrats have no spine. It seems likely that could happen as well. There are so many contingencies at this early date that I'm surprised Silver even offered this prediction.